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English Poetry Database provides full text access to over 4,400 poetry collections (160,000 poems by 1,350 poets listed in the New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature). Excluded are English translations after 1800, verse drama, non-English language works, hymns after 1800, and unpublished poems or poems published in contemporary newspapers, magazines, or miscellanies, as well as writers once considered non-canonical. || Search by author, title, words-in-titles and in the full text of poems. || Complemented by the 20th Century English Poetry database and similar collections of American and African American poetry.